|
POPULAR PRESS HEADLINES |
ANNOUNCEMENTS |
|
What science can tell us about our relationship to pets and our desire to clone them More than half of Canadian households have at least one pet. Humans are eager to deepen their connection with animals, but the current science of cloning and decoding animal communication doesn't bring us close enough. From the CBC News-2025-12-1:8:5:1
Prostate cancer screening should not be offered to most UK men, say experts It recommends that only men with a confirmed genetic risk of prostate cancer should be screened for the disease. From the BBC News-2025-11-28:14:6:1
The species at risk of extinction named in UK-first report Species in Peril identifies thousands of at-risk species in Wales based on geographical restriction. From the BBC News-2025-11-25:8:5:2
|
The EvolDir is directed toward evolutionary biologists,
population biologists and scientists in related areas. Reminder: the preferred use of EvolDir is for bulletins not discussions.
HOX Genes: Methods and Protocols, by Bony De Kumar, Ashish Shelar, from Springer Nature. (Dec 6). Genetics Special Issue on fitness landscapes. A call for the submission of papers for a Special Issue on "Fitness Landscapes: data, theory and applications. (Nov 25). Principles of Biological Autonomy, a new annotated edition, by Francisco J. Varela, from MIT Press. (Nov 22). Discrete Mathematical Models in Population Biology: Ecological, Epidemic, and Evolutionary Dynamics, by Saber N. Elaydi, Jim M. Cushing, from Springer Nature. (Nov 8).
Please ensure that the EvolDir is 'whitelisted' with your email service providers. Repeated bounces stating that your email is blocked will result in the removal of your email from the EvolDir. You can check the website to ensure that you are receiving all emails. Other notices of general interest can go here (including notices that may be commercial). |
|
SELECTED JOURNAL TOC's |
|
|
SELECTED FORTHCOMING ARTICLES |
|
The most recent EvolDir posting is shown here ... Older messages are shown in the directories given below. The most recent listing of people and e-mail addresses is here.
|
|
|
|
Please note that if the above information is not displayed
correctly, please make sure that you access this website via
https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir.html
or via
https://evol.mcmaster.ca/evoldir.html.
This site is managed by Brian Golding. If you feel that you have something
of interest to other evolutionary biologists please send me
e-mail and
I will put it on these pages. These pages are for evolutionary
biologists (population genetics, and related fields). If there is a
message that seems too distant to these purposes, it will be deleted
or worse, edited at my discretion to read "the evolution of ...".
|
|
General INSTRUCTIONS are available for the EvolDir. It is my policy that commercial notices are not permitted except in the announcement section and at my discretion (send emails with the subject header "EvolDir -for announcement section" to me at Golding@McMaster.CA). SPAM of any sort is not tolerated but some may occassionally, but only temporally, escape me. Thanks to Prof.Page the EvolDir is also available on X. |